scrub wallaby

English

Noun

scrub wallaby (plural scrub wallabies)

  1. Any of various wallabies living in dense vegetation, especially the black-striped wallaby, Macropus dorsalis, of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. [from 19th c.]
    • 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 16:
      She waved out the sidewindow, ‘Another scrub wallaby! That's fifteen not including your side.’
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